Question

I would like to fetch an array in MySQL. Can someone please tell me how to use Python using MySQLdb to do so?

For example, this is what I would like to do in Python:

<?php

  require_once('Config.php'); 

  $q = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE firstname = 'namehere'");
  $data = mysql_fetch_array($q);
  echo $data['lastname'];

?>

Thanks.

Answer 1

1. Install MySQLdb (the drivers for MySQL for Python). Type pip install mysql-python
2. Read up on the Python DB API, which is the standard way to access databases in Python.

Then, try this:

>>> import MySQLdb
>>> connection = MySQLdb.connect(database='test')
>>> cursor = connection.cursor()
>>> cursor.execute('SELECT * FROM users WHERE firstname = %s',('somename',))
>>> results = cursor.fetchall()
>>> for i in results:
       print i